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- From: danpop@mail.cern.ch (Dan Pop)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++
- Subject: Re: Unix Haters
- Date: 1 Apr 96 17:54:16 GMT
- Organization: CERN European Lab for Particle Physics
- Message-ID: <danpop.828381256@rscernix>
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- In <dewar.828365229@schonberg> dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) writes:
-
- >Dan Pop said
- >
- >"In my book, one of the main charms is that Unix runs on almost any kind
- >of hardware, from the most expensive to the cheapest PC (currently the
- >Power Mac is the exception, but Apple is actively involved in a Linux
- >port)."
- >
- >That's wrong, Machten, a pretty complete system 5 port, runs fine on
- >a Power Mac.
-
- Machten is not a "native" OS on the PMac. It runs on top of MacOS,
- which means that any MacOS application can disrupt its operation.
-
- Dan
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- Dan Pop
- CERN, CN Division
- Email: danpop@mail.cern.ch
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